As Gaza war rages, U.S. military footprint expands across Middle East

As Gaza war rages, U.S. military footprint expands across Middle East© Leo Correa/AP

OVER THE GAZA STRIP — Lt. Col. Jeremy Anderson tilted up the nose of his U.S. Air Force C-130 and tipped 16 pallets of emergency food aid out of the cargo bay and into the sky above northern Gaza.

Thousands of miles away, off the coast of Yemen, U.S. fighter jets and attack helicopters roared off the flight deck of the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower, often just minutes apart, to combat Houthi fighters attacking ships in and around the Red Sea. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/ar-BB1k1Kw1